'The finest in the world': Why the US is buying icebreakers from Finland
Bogdan Hofbauer
As President Donald Trump continues to insist that the US needs to own Greenland, his wider focus on the Arctic region has seen Washington order new icebreakers. For these ships, which can sail through seas covered in solid ice, the US has gone to the world expert – Finland. Temperatures are sub-zero inside Aker Arctic Technology's ice laboratory, as the scale model of an icebreaker cruises down a 70m-long simulation tank. It ploughs a neat channel through the frozen surface of the water.
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